In today’s lesson, we learnt about how to use the after-effects camera and many different camera movements. I got my fantasy matte painting and added a camera forward dolly to it. I made the layers 3d and added a camera (layer – new – camera – one node) I changed the view to custom view 1 and moved the layers forward or backwards I animated the camera by placing a keyframe on position and move it forward on the Z-axis I made a second camera movement with another camera dolly but backwards and a camera roll to the right I […]
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Short matte painting sequence
In today’s lesson, we made a short matte painting sequence Matte paintings have been around since the 19th century, they were originally glass paintings that were used in famous films to create fake scenery, to make landscapes, or a set, giving a fake illusion of an environment. It makes things look grander so it is more specific to the brief. Paint or pastels were used to physically paint a photorealistic scene on the glass. Matte paintings are now made digitally. This technique is often used when it would otherwise be too expensive, inconvenient or impossible to achieve by filming live. […]
Target Audience Profile
In today’s lesson, we looked at target audience profiles; we looked at the demographics and psychographics of the audience what they liked and disliked. It is important to know who you are aiming your Fantasy Series for when you promote it. You should always conduct some sort of market research. What is a Target Audience? It is a group of consumers that you aim your product at, who you intended the product to be for. A Target Audience Profile is a specific group of consumers that will best respond and respond positively to your product, based on their profile characteristics […]
Middle of Term SWOT ANALYSIS 2021 resub
SWOT analysis charts are a way of showing your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in a certain time period. This is good for college tutors to see where your concerns might be and also where you might excel. If there are any issues, then these can be addressed and you can set yourself targets to try and overcome weaknesses and threats. A SWOT analysis is beneficial to the tutor so they know that the person understands what they are doing that term. Middle of Term SWOT: New
Design justification of characters and their background
In today’s lesson, we looked at the design justification of our characters or backgrounds in our fantasy briefs. I chose a hero and a villain character because, in fantasy, there is always a hero and a villain as it is a staple to stories. In The Hobbit, the necromancer and the main antagonist was Azorg the defiler. These were shown as dark and disfigured characters. This automatically made you think they were evil and the music changed to set the mood. The heroes were the dwarves and the hobbit, they were as good-humoured, singing and dancing and drinking. They looked […]
Target Audience Primary Research
In today’s lesson, we made a google forms survey for our fantasy briefs. Primary research for a target audience is important because you need to know what your audience likes so you can use that information for your project I asked the questions because I wanted to know if people liked my idea or not and I could see what I could improve on Varied questions and formats are important because you need to have variety in the questions so you can get better results from other people doing your survey. Link to the survey: (It has been updated therefore […]
Storyboard and Animatics
In today’s lesson, we looked at storyboards and animatics and we also made a storyboard for our briefs. I have decided to make a storyboard for my animation, the first frame is the villain approaching Zeph through the flames, the second frame is the villain saying “It’s over Zeph! the village is ours!”, the third frame is a close up of Zeph getting mad, the fourth frame is Zeph saying “The stone isn’t yours! it doesn’t belong to you!”, the fifth frame is the villain smirking, in the final frame, both charge at each other and clash their swords to […]
Target Audience – Demographics Analysis resub
Let me start by explaining what Demographics and psychographics are DEMOGRAPHICS Demographics ~ Who they are The characteristics of the person, such as their age and income There are three types of Demographics: Professional / Managerial: Higher paying professional roles and lower-paying management roles. These can be Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Directors and managers. Intermediate: Office & service workers and lower-paying supervisor & technical roles also include Nurses, Health Care Workers, Heating Engineers, Plumbers and Shop Assistants Routine / Unemployed: Low paying routine jobs, part-time occupations, unemployed people, living with benefits. The jobs would be the type that anyone could do, […]
Michael Morgan Talk
In today’s lesson, we had a guest speaker talk to us. Michael Morgan is a professional animator, he has worked on video games, TV commercials and VFX films. Michael Morgan Michael is from Birmingham and was always interested in cartoons from an early age, always drawing cartoon figures. He did 2D animation at college and graduated from university ready to take on a career in animation. Michaels first jobs were working on video games and for Lucas films working on The Clone Wars TV series, this took him to Singapore. He then returned to the UK working on TV series […]
Lens Flare and God Rays
In today’s lesson, we added lens flare and god rays to an image in photoshop Lens flare: God rays: Lens Flare: filter – render – lens flare God rays: select – colour range – highlights – adjust fuzziness and range – ctrl j to duplicate layer – filter – blur – radial blur – zoom – draft – adjust it – done This will be useful for my fantasy brief because it could help me make a cinematic title sequence. But I have no plans for a title sequence as I have chosen to do an animation. However, if I […]